Curt Flood Quotes

If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

One of the things about the NBA is anybody could be traded.

Some people want to stay with one team but they get traded.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Obviously, in the NBA, there's a lot of different decisions that people make. The whole thing in the NBA is that people sometimes have an opportunity to go where they want.

I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.

In the NBA, you're never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

I'm loyal to Portland. I want to play my whole career here, but at any moment, they can decide we want somebody else.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

There have been few players that haven't been traded over the years in the NBA.

Midseason trades are hard.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

Every single year I was on the block - could be cut, could be released.

It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don't know any of those things.

It's always that time of year around January where trade talks come.

Everybody - come on - everybody is going to get traded at some point.